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Tracking Changes in Photoperiod Around the Globe The FINAL Mystery Class Update Will Be Posted On Friday May 15, 1998 Today's Update Includes: Today's The Day You've All Been Waiting For... Where In The World Are They? Announcing The Mystery Class Contest Winners! How The Contest Entries Were Ranked "And The Awards Go To..." Today's The Day You've All Been Waiting For... Thanks to all who participated in the Mystery Class contest. We know everyone worked very hard throughout this entire activity, and we consider all of you winners. Whether you submitted one guess or ten, and whether you are in third grade or eleventh grade, we were glad to have you in the Contest! We hope you had fun trying to uncover the ten secret locations and we hope you learned a great deal about collecting and interpreting data, latitude and longitude, photoperiod, GMT, and the effects of these elements on migratory species. Be sure to come back next week so you can "meet" each of the ten Mystery locations, when we post their introductions and some photos too! Right now, though,we know what you REALLY want to know.... Where In The World Are They? Click on the map to see a larger view The 10 Mystery Sites Are: Mystery Class City Country Latitude Longitude # 1 Buenos Aires Argentina 34.330 S 58.500 W # 2 Rouse (Ruse) Bulgaria 43.833 N 25.950 E # 3 McMurdo Antarctica 77.850 S 166.700 E # 4 Quispamsis New Brunswick, Canada 45.433 N 65.950 W # 5 Wellington New Zealand 41.300 S 174.833 E # 6 Ramstein Germany 49.450 N 7.550 E # 7 Hong Kong China 22.217 N 114.183 E # 8 Harare Zimbabwe 17.833 S 31.050 E # 9 Singapore Singapore 1.300 N 103.800 E # 10 Utsjoki Finland 69.883 N 27.017 E Announcing The Mystery Class Contest Winners! First, let us say CONGRATULATIONS to all contestants--you did a Great Job! How Contest Entries Were Ranked We ranked the contest entries by grade level, so our first step was to separate the entries according to their grade levels. If the entry came from a mixed-grade classroom, we ranked the class according to the highest grade in the class. After that, we carefully reviewed each entry to see how many correct answers there were, with both the correct COUNTRY and the correct CITY. Here are the entries with the most correct answers, listed by grade level. "And the awards go to..." Grade 3 7 correct answers (a two-way tie) Mrs. Harralson and Mrs. Sargent's bilingual 3rd Grade Class Camino School, Camino California (jbharr@directcon.net) and Mr. MacFarlane's 2nd and 3rd Grade Class Magnetic Hill School, Moncton New Brunswick Canada (jmacfar@fundy.net) Grade 4 8 correct answers Ms. Kathleen Allen's 3rd/4th Grade Class South Park Elementary School Pueblo, Colorado (garyt@csn.net ) Grade 5 8 correct answers Mrs. Huntzinger's 5th Grade Class Warner Elementary, Spring Arbor, Michigan (huntzing@scnc.western.k12.mi.us) Grade 6 7 correct answers (a five way tie!) Mr. Bill Lee's 6th Grade Class, Winifred, Montana (bdlee@concentric.net) Mr. Dale Schmidt's 6th Grade Class Bath Middle School, Lima, Ohio (ba_schmidt@NOACSC.OHIO.GOV) Mrs. Anna Hartle's 6th Grade Global Connections Class Cincinnati Country Day School,Cincinnati, OH (hartlea@ccds.cincinnati.oh.us) Ms. Julie Stitt's 6th Grade Class St. Francis Intermediate St. Francis, Minnesota JulSti@STFRANCIS.K12.MN.US Ms. Ensminger's Sixth Grade Science Classes Collierville Elementary School, Collierville, Tennessee (linda205@cedar.netten.net) Grade 7 8 correct answers Mrs. Cerullo's Seventh Grade Classes Joyce Middle School in Woburn, MA (HBCTeach@aol.com) Grade 8 5 correct answers (a two-way tie!) Mr. Robb's 8th Grade Science Class York Middle School, York, NE (gkloewer@esu6.esu6.k12.ne.us) and Mr. Mike Alikonis' 8th Grade Science Class West Middle School Alton , IL (westmiddle@stlnet.com) Grade 11 8 correct answers Mr Tony Ward's Grade 11 Natural Disasters Course GPH 3A1 Ajax High School, Ajax, ON Canada L1S 1P2 (tward@visionol.net) Again, congratulations to these students! If our winning classrooms would like to be pictured here, class photos can be sent to: Journey North 18150 Breezy Point Road Wayzata, Minnesota 55391 USA Remember to come back next week and "meet" the ten Mystery Classes The FINAL Mystery Class Update Will be Posted: May 15, 1998 Copyright 1998 Journey North. All Rights Reserved.